1. Donald Trump has yet again escalated his
militaristic threats against North Korea. After announcing on 8 August that the Asian country would be "met with fire and fury like the world has never
seen," the US president added two days later: "Maybe it wasn't tough enough." Asked by journalists if he would consider a pre-emptive strike
against North Korea, Trump said ambiguously, "We'll see what happens." (Reuters, 8 August 2017).

2. It would be very wrong to reduce the problem to one
of the mental state of the current US president. True, on the surface, this bizarre combination of clown and psychopath in the White House appears as a sad aberration of history. However, it is
not merely Trump, but the entire ruling class of US imperialism, that it determined to teach the world a lesson that no one dare to stand up to the American Empire! Just take the dramatic
genocidal threat that US Defense Secretary James Mattis made in the last day to North Korea to "cease any consideration of actions that would lead to the
end of its regime and destruction of its people" (CNN, 10 August 2017). Or consider the approval of Trump’s war rhetoric by the influential US Senator Lindsey Graham, who said he believes the
president would be willing to launch a pre-emptive strike to prevent Pyongyang from launching a nuclear attack on the US homeland. In short, a military attack by US imperialism against North
Korea has become a truly realistic possibility!

3. As we have made clear in past statements, the RCIT
has not the slightest political sympathy for the Stalinist North Korean regime. However, what matters are not words, bombastic as they may be, but facts! It is the US and not North Korea
which has launched countless wars on all continents, which is occupying foreign countries, which has dropped nuclear bombs, which possesses thousands of nuclear missiles, and which just four
months ago dropped history’s most powerful non-nuclear weapon (the "Mother of All Bombs") on
Afghanistan! It is the US and other Great Powers that are placing sanction after sanction on the northeast Asian country and are thereby starving its people! In other words, it is US imperialism
and its allies – and not the regime of Kim Jong Un – which pose a mortal danger to the North Korean people and humanity in general!

4. The RCIT therefore urgently calls upon the
international workers’ movements and popular mass organizations to mobilize with the slogan "Stop the US Warmongers!" Likewise, they should mobilize in opposition to the sanctions which
have been imposed on North Korea. In the event of a military conflict, the RCIT would call for the defeat of the imperialist forces and their allies and for the defense of North Korea.

* Stop the US Warmongers! For demonstrations, strikes and sabotage to stop US military aggression!

* Down with the imperialist sanctions against North Korea! Stop the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system in
South Korea!

* In any military conflict between the US or South Korea on one side and North Korea on the other: Defeat the
imperialist forces and their allies and defend North Korea!

* Down with the Stalinist dictatorship in Pyongyang! For a political revolution of the workers, peasants and oppressed in North Korea!

* For the revolutionary unification of the Korean peninsula! For a Korean Workers’ and Peasant Republic!

International Secretariat of the RCIT

See also our past statements on the imperialist aggression against North Korea:

Michael Pröbsting: The Meaning, Consequences and Lessons of Trump‘s Victory. On the Lessons of
the US Presidential Election Outcome and the Perspectives for the Domestic and International Class Struggle, 24.November 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/meaning-of-trump/

For our analysis of the emergence of South Korea as a small imperialist power, we refer readers to the following document: